Security sources told WAFA news agency that Issa Riyad Issa Jabali, 28, a resident of Beita town, south of Nablus, succumbed to his wounds after being shot by Israeli forces near the occupation’s military camp in Huwara, located in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The Israeli military claimed it opened fire on a Palestinian who approached a base in the north of the West Bank and was acting suspiciously.
With Jabali’s death, the number of Palestinians killed due to the Israeli military assault, dubbed "Iron Wall," on north West Bank cities has risen to 73, including 38 in Jenin, 15 in Tubas, seven in Nablus, eight in Tulkarm, three in Hebron, two in Bethlehem, and one in Jerusalem, since the beginning of this year.
Among the fatalities are 10 children, three women, and two elderly individuals.
Moreover, the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) said that the Israeli occupation forces had detained about 380 Palestinians in the governorates of Jenin, Tulkarm, and Tubas since the beginning of the ongoing Israeli assault on the northern West Bank.
The PPS noted that the occupation forces are implementing a multiplicity of deadly and repressive measures in the West Bank, including field executions, assassinations, and harassment of dozens of families, in addition to detaining citizens as hostages and turning homes into military outposts after forcing their owners to leave them and move to other areas.
Since the start of Israel’s assault on Jenin refugee camp, at least 25 Palestinians have been killed, the Media Committee in Jenin said on Thursday.
Taking a page out of its playbook in Gaza, Israel has displaced more than 20,000 people from Jenin—90 percent of the camp’s residents—amid Israeli airstrikes and military raids and have damaged 470 structures, carried out 153 raids, and blocked access to water for 35 percent of the population, the committee said.
Growing int'l condemnation
UNICEF said on Wednesday that at least 13 Palestinian children have been killed in the West Bank since the beginning of 2025, including seven since 19 January, when a large-scale Israeli operation began in the north of the occupied territory.
Among the casualties was a two-year-old whose pregnant mother was also injured in the shooting.
Accordingly, UNICEF has issued a statement expressing "deep alarm at the growing number of children killed, injured and displaced in the occupied West Bank" amid the ongoing Israeli operation.
It added that the number of killed and injured "reflects a worrying trend," noting that since 7 October 2023, 195 Palestinian children have been killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
“There has been a 200 percent increase in the number of Palestinian children killed in the territory over the past 16 months as compared to the 16 months prior,” said Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa.
“Children and their families in the northern West Bank – especially those in refugee camps – continue to face incredible hardship. Thousands of families have been displaced due to the recent military operations, including in Jenin, Nur Shams, Tulkarem, and al-Faraa Camps," he added, calling for an “immediate cessation of armed activity across the occupied West Bank.”
In a statement on Wednesday, the Embassy of Palestine to Ireland posted on X, condemning the brutal attacks in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, saying they had killed at least 29 Palestinians in Jenin and Tulkarm alone in the past two weeks.
“In the West Bank, homes are being emptied and turned into military outposts and sniper positions,” the statement said, adding that Israeli operations had wounded dozens, detained many, and demolished homes, forcing entire Palestinian families into displacement.
“Israel's war crimes in Gaza are being repeated in flagrant violation of international law without any repercussions,” it added.
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